Take On Me Tab

WARNING: You are trying to view
content from Ultimate-Guitar.com
in an unauthorized application,
which is prohibited.

Please use an official Ultimate
Guitar Tabs application for iPhone,
iPad or Android to access legitimate
chords, guitar, bass, and drum tabs
from Ultimate-Guitar.com database.

Type "ultimate guitar tabs" in Apple
App Store's or Android Market's
search to find the application.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                             Take On Me - Reel Big Fish
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tabbed by: SupremeACL
Email: supremeacl@gmail.com
This is Reel Big Fish's Take On Me from the BASEketball Soundtrack. This song is in the 
of A Major. For the chords, Aaron usually plays the top 3 or 4 notes, but I prefer to do 
full chords. I'm tabbing for the full chords. Here it goes!

Tuning: Standard eBGDAE


Intro (w/ distortion):
     Bm
e|---2---2-------------------------------------------|
B|---3-----3-----------------------------------------|
G|---4-------4~--------------------------------------|
D|---4-----------------------------------------------|
A|---------------22-022-022-022-022-022-02020202-----|
E|---------------------------------------------------|

Verse A (clean):
   Bm           E
   v^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v ^v v   simile
e|-77-x-7-x-7-x----------------55-x-5-x-5-x------------------|
B|-77-x-7-x-7-x-9-x-9-x-99-9---55-x-5-x-5-x-7-x-7-x-77-7-----|
G|-77-x-7-x-7-x-9-x-9-x-99-9---66-x-6-x-6-x-7-x-7-x-77-7-----|
D|-99-x-9-x-9-x-9-x-9-x-99-9---77-x-7-x-7-x-7-x-7-x-77-7-----|
A|-99-x-9-x-9-x-7-x-7-x-77-7---77-x-7-x-7-x-5-x-5-x-55-5-----|
E|-77-x-7-x-7-x----------------55-x-5-x-5-x------------------|

Verse B (clean):
                              Switch to distortion here
e|-77-x-7-x-7-x------------------------------------------|
B|-77-x-7-x-7-x-9-x-9-x-99-9-----------------------------|
G|-77-x-7-x-7-x-9-x-9-x-99-9------777-7-7----------------|
D|-99-x-9-x-9-x-9-x-9-x-99-9--4---xxx-x-x----------------|
A|-99-x-9-x-9-x-7-x-7-x-77-7--4---555-5-5----------------|
E|-77-x-7-x-7-x---------------2--------------------------|

Chorus (w/ Distortion):
    PM-|   PM-|   PM-|
                                x2                                       x1
e|--------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
G|--------------9------11---7-6-7-|----------99999999------------------7-6-7|
D|-------7------9------11---x-x-x-|-77777777-99999999-1111111111111111-x-x-x|
A|-------7-7777-7-9999-9----5-4-5-|-77777777-77777777-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9--5-4-5|
E|--5555-5------------------------|-55555555--------------------------------|

Then:
       PM      PM      PM      PM
e|-----------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------|
D|-------------------7---7---9---9---|
A|---7---7---7---7-5---55--7---77----|
E|-5---55--4---44--------------------|

Bridge:
                           slide up the neck randomly
e|-4----------------------------------------------------21b-19---------------|
B|-5--8-----7p5p47p5p47p5p47p5p47p5p47p5p47p5p47p5p4/----------19------------|
G|-6----7---------------------------------------------4-----------21---4-4---|
D|-6------9-------------------------------------------x----------------4-4---|
A|----------------------------------------------------2----------------2-2---|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Chorus 3(w/ Distortion):
    PM-|   PM-|   PM-|
                                x2                                       x1
e|--------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
G|--------------9------11---7-6-7-|----------99999999------------------7-6-7|
D|-------7------9------11---x-x-x-|-77777777-99999999-1111111111111111-x-x-x|
A|-------7-7777-7-9999-9----5-4-5-|-77777777-77777777-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9--5-4-5|
E|--5555-5------------------------|-55555555--------------------------------|

Then he does some soloing which is hard to figure out.  I'll tab a little of it.
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------10-9-10-9-10-12-10-9-10-9-10-9-10-12-10-9------------|
G|-9p7p9p7p9p7p9p7p9p7-------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Then end of the solo is:
e|---------14h15h17--------14h15h17--------14h15h17-17b-|
B|-14h15h17--------14h15h17--------14h15h17-------------|
G|------------------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------|

The order:
Intro
Verse A x4
Verse B
Chorus
Verse A x2
Verse B
Chorus
Bridge
Verse A x4
Verse B
Chorus 3
Outro solo

There we go! Hopefully you can read it; it's a bit messy in places Cheers, and good playing!

| /  slide up
| \  slide down
| h  hammer-on
| p  pull-off
| ~  vibrato
| +  harmonic
| x  Mute note
| v  Downstroke
| ^  Upstroke
==============================================================================